On Frail Wings of Vanity and Wax par Alesana - Paroles et titres de l'album

[Dennis Lee, Shawn Mike, Adam Ferguson]

 

A touch of poison seals my fate

 

(The dawn echoes) The sun

(The night with) Himself

(My glory) Honors me

 

Once king of roses, now lord of gold

Blessed with the gift of gilded touch

The Gods themselves envy my hand

Fate wields its knife to cut the thread

I curse the day my dream became my descent

Suddenly I long for you, my only love

 

In my perfection, I have no want

A folly as fatal as sin

Yet eyes still glint with greed untold

Has now become the end of me

I curse the day my dream became my descent

Suddenly I long for you, my only love

 

Have I not...

 

 

...Earned this, the gift of beauty within?

How selfish were the Gods to

Keep their riches from my rightful treasure?

I truly have become one of them, my fatal flaw

 

Oh, yeah! I've got her

Hook, line, and sinker! Hook, line, and sinker!

Thanks to me, she's her own new necklace!

Thanks to me, she's her own new necklace!

Thanks to me, she's her own new necklace!

 

Now she's good as gold!

I curse the day my dream became my descent

Suddenly I long for you, my only love

I curse the day my dream became my descent

Suddenly I long for you, my only love

 

Cut the thread

[Intro: Adam Ferguson]

She haunts me

 

[Verse 1: Dennis Lee, Shawn Milke]

In dreams, I see her silhouette

Dance across landscapes of

Golden light and autumn

In my dreams...

 

[Verse 2: Shawn Milke, Dennis Lee, Adam Ferguson]

Her soft eyes see (The things I'd give)

Through my tortured soul (To prove myself to her)

Vanishing (To make her see)

Any hope for (Fantasy)

Jaded eyes awake

 

[Pre-Chorus: Dennis Lee, Shawn Milke, Adam Ferguson]

As her selfish words rain from such

Placid lips, still I kiss her silken flesh

 

[Chorus: Shawn Milke, Adam Ferguson]

Frigid air leaves me breathless

(Frigid air leaves me breathless)

Foolish agony fills my lungs

As I try to scream for her

I confess... I scare myself

 

 

[Post-Chorus: Dennis Lee, Adam Ferguson]

Through the howling wind

On my knees, I cry

Listen to me

 

[Verse 3: Shawn Milke, Dennis Lee]

I'm broken by her silence

To a love unseen

(Blood soaked feathers rained down)

My wingless angel, so broken falls

Gracefully from the sky

To waiting arms, to waiting arms

 

[Instrumental Break]

 

[Chorus: Shawn Milke, Adam Ferguson]

Frigid air leaves me breathless

(Frigid air leaves me breathless)

Foolish agony fills my lungs

As I try to scream for her

I confess... I scare myself

 

[Hook: Adam Ferguson]

Listen to me

 

[Chorus: Shawn Milke, Adam Ferguson]

Frigid air leaves me breathless

(Frigid air leaves me breathless)

Foolish agony fills my lungs

As I try to scream for her

I confess... I scare myself

 

 

[Post-Chorus: Dennis Lee, Adam Ferguson]

Through the howling wind

On my knees, I cry

Listen to me

 

[Spoken Word: Shawn Milke]

Such foolish agony fills my lungs as I try to scream for her

Jaded eyes wake to the sounds of my voice as I scream to her

In dreams, I've seen her silhouette dance across golden light

And autumn... In my dreams...

 

[Breakdown: Dennis Lee]

Skies so

Burdened

Let her

Go

As cold

Rain falls

So does

She...

 

[Outro: Shawn Milke, Adam Ferguson, Dennis Lee]

My desires wither

Broken once more

Her soft hands take

She one haunts so me fair

4 ContributorsDaggers Speak Louder Than Words LyricsEyes open to splattered blood

Cold tile mocks me as I arise

To find the knife

The knife is still in my back

 

Shifting thoughts now slow with venom

Take me as I stagger, is this all we were worth?

I've lost you for good without regret

 

Your once gentle words are bleeding from my eyes

Screams of terror now fill my every breath

I know you'll rue the day

 

You ever met me, I'll lay you down to sleep

When sorrow will bury the blade hilt deep

You know

 

I would have died for you

Now I'm forced to choose between

A life of revenge or regret

As I thirst for vengeance

My heart struggles to come to grips

Why would you leave me to die, turn, and walk away?

 

Alone, you stood so still

 

 

As you watched me break, did it now kill you too?

What has led you to the dagger, my friend?

You know

 

I would have died for you

Now I'm forced to choose between

A life of revenge or regret

As I thirst for vengeance

My heart struggles to come to grips

Why would you leave me to die, turn, and walk away?

 

Turn, and walk away

Turn, and walk away

 

My revenge is made so clear

Midst cold tears left with the betrayed

I'll see that you never forget this

 

I will hunt you down like a dog

Lies could never disguise

What I saw behind me in you

 

Remembering times we have shared

My friend for life is gone

Remembering times we have shared

(We'll let the embers serve as the only memory)

My friend for life is gone

(Of last days, so long ago)

 

 

Why would you leave me to die

Turn, and walk away?

Why would you leave me to die

After you had buried the dagger hilt deep?

 

You're dead to me

 

I would have died for you

Now I'm forced to choose between

A life of revenge or regret

As I thirst for vengeance

My heart struggles to come to grips

Why would you leave me to die?

You're dead to me

11 ContributorsCongratulations, I Hate You LyricsNo one ever said that life was fair

And I'm not saying that it should be

So knowing that you are what you want to be and I'm not comes as no surprise

But don't expect me to be happy for you

And don't smile at me and tell me things will work out for me too

I don't want your pity

I hate your pity

 

Taste your vanity and its sweet bitterness

As you hide behind your veil of

My stolen hopes and lost dreams

(I watched you steal my thoughts)

 

You took them all

(And had to see you smile)

 

As you build your dreams

On my shattered hopes

I'll look back on

A day once loved

And fantasize for

Tragedy

 

Swallow your pity

 

Beg me to make this easier

And listen to my hopeless cries

 

 

Suffer alone

In emptiness

 

I lust to

See you swallowed by

The mess that

You left in your wake

 

Disgust lies deep within

Your empty (gaze)

 

Beg me to make this easier

And listen to my hopeless cries

Send stares into

Your meaningless eyes

 

My

Envy can't describe how I loathe you

For having all the stars

Leaving my eyes to marvel the sky

Knowing it should be mine

Yet it's you I see wasting the dream

That only I deserve

I'll tear off your face

To see your smile

 

 

As you build your dreams

On my shattered hopes

I'll look back on

A day once loved

And fantasize for

Tragedy

 

Beg me to make this easier

And listen to my hopeless cries

Send stares into

Your meaningless eyes

[Verse 1: Patrick Thompson, Melissa Milke, both, Shawn Milke]

The horizon, now as dark as the crimes that brought them here

Is filled with my impending dread

My foolish actions will cost so many good men

Achilles has come...

 

[Pre-Chorus: Melissa Milke and Shawn Milke, Adam Ferguson]

A thousand sails approaching

Sent here in her name to reclaim the one I stole

And destroy the walls of Troy

 

[Chorus: Shawn Milke, Melissa Milke, both, (Patrick Thompson)]

Desire (leaves me numb) to all the pain surrounding me (to all the pain surrounding me)

Storms will arise to condemn me

I will not die before her eyes...

It ends tonight

 

[Verse 2: Patrick Thompson, Melissa Milke, both, Shawn Milke]

Tragically I now must accept the penance I have earned

She is cursed and tonight we die

In the dawn of this, my end, I hold my sword true

I must let her go...

 

[Pre-Chorus: Melissa Milke and Shawn Milke, Adam Ferguson]

A thousand sails approaching

Sent here in her name to reclaim the one I stole

And destroy the walls of Troy

 

 

[Chorus: Shawn Milke, Melissa Milke, both, (Patrick Thompson)]

Desire (leaves me numb) to all the pain surrounding me (to all the pain surrounding me)

Storms will arise to condemn me

I will not die before her eyes...

It ends tonight

 

[Bridge: Shawn Milke and Melissa Milke, (Patrick Thompson)]

It ends tonight (it ends tonight), I am alone

Pain fills her eyes, I am alone

 

[Outro: Shawn Milke, Melissa Milke, Patrick Thompson]

Sacred and profane is our love in death... (I must save my honor, I cannot let them win, the blood of many spills)

Sacred and profane is our love in death... (I must save my honor, I cannot let them win, the blood of many spills)

Sacred and profane is our love in death... (I must save my honor, I cannot let them win, the blood of many spills)

5 ContributorsA Siren’s Soliloquy LyricsParalyzed by the beauty of those words

That so delicately drip from this angel of untamed lust

Suddenly I fear the end of my solitude

Once a warrior, poetic shrieks now own my soul

 

Left behind to fight the ruthless pawns of Eris

Hope will strike her down beneath the blade as she sings for him

 

Suffering unseen now will be left to burn in her stare

But he no longer fights the torture of her voice

So long forgotten, I am lost in her stare

Made so clear as she extracts her painful toll

A soul now echoes with the torture of the sirens

...He is hers...

 

Beautiful whispers leave one so far

Chain these hands of ageless struggle

Rid us of this beloved curse

An epic tale of deceit is given life once more on silver lips so spiteful

Her tongue screams for him

Rid us of this curse

 

Suffering unseen now will be left to burn in her stare

But he no longer fights the torture of her voice

So long forgotten, I am lost in her stare

Mad so clear as she extracts her painful toll

A soul now echoes with the torture of the sirens

...He is hers...

 

 

Set loose so long ago by the foolish whim of Pandora

Phantoms which shall forever prey on mankind's weakness

The grains of time hold no bearing to those eyes

In pale moonlight she sings to the haunted sea

Vile notes seduce old Cerberus to slake unholy thirst

 

Left behind to fight the ruthless pawns of Eris

Hope will strike her down beneath the blade as she sings for him

 

Suffering unseen now will be left to burn in her stare

But he no longer fights the torture of her voice

So long forgotten, I am lost in her stare

Mad so clear as she extracts her painful toll

A soul now echoes with the torture of the sirens

...He is hers...